Federal Protective Service (United States) - MegaCenters

MegaCenters

In 2000, FPS transitioned all alarm monitoring and dispatching capabilities from several regional control centers to four MegaCenters. Currently, each MegaCenter monitors multiple types of alarm systems, closed circuit television, and wireless dispatch communications within federal facilities throughout the entire nation. The centers, located in Battle Creek, Michigan, Denver, Colorado, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Suitland, Maryland, are equipped with state-of-the-art communication systems and in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The centers are fully redundant—if there is a partial or catastrophic failure at one center, all operations can be remotely switched and monitored at a "peer" location without disruption to field service.

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